Possibly. There is a flashback in one episode that shows a toddler-aged Frankie with Madame Foster. It's likely Frankie's parents died or abandoned her while she was an infant.

She's a grown woman. They may live far away, and she may live with/near her grandmother because Madame Foster's is elderly and may need help.

Why are there so few fictional friends? We see one, but very few works of fiction seem to produce friends. I could easily see a kid with a bullying problem create Darth Vader to get revenge or a Whedonite creating River.

Because the animators would have to pay royalties to use the likenesses of celebrities and/or fictional characters that they do not own the rights to. They were able to use Mojo Jojo as a one-scene gag because Cartoon Network owns the rights to the character and FHFIM is a Cartoon Network produced show. If they wanted to use Darth Vader, they would have to pay George Lucas the rights to use the character's likeness. Sure, they could create an Expy for the characters, but, they'd have to make sure not to make them look too much like the original or else they'd be sued for infringement.

Not only are Foster's and PPG both owned by Cartoon Network, they were created by the same person, Craig Mc Cracken. He obviously wouldn't sue himself, so there was no copyright risk.

Are Imaginary Friends seen as citizens under the law? Can they get paid jobs? Can they marry each other or even humans? Most of them to be on their own or living in a foster home, but can't they at least rent an apartment?

Hmm... Complicated question. In Foster's Goes to Europe Or do they?! It is shown, that the Imaginary Friends need passports and tickets to travel per airplane and are therefore not seen as pets. However, it is often mentioned that the Friend's kids are their "owners", which sound more like they were pets or even slaves (which is definitely not the case). It's pretty hard to tell... But, if Wild Mass Guessing is right, there's no need to explain this inconsistency anyway.

Herriman was a bagger at a grocery once, so getting a job is definitely possible. A successful job might be another story...

Coco gets and leaves several jobs in rapid fire, apparently getting full payload each time. One of the jobs is as a security guard, implying that Imaginary Friends can have jobs of responsibility, or that Rule of Cool rules.

I think this is more a matter of individual opinion. Each person has their own view. At first, a friend lives with the family of their creator, who is viewed, more or less as a surrogate parent. Then when the child is deemed too old, the friend is expected to go out and make a living of their own. The fact that friends have little or no preparation for this doesn't usually cross people's minds. And Mac's teacher even casually tossed a couple of friends in a schoolroom closet, as though they were confiscated toys.

If everyone with imagination can create an imaginary friend, what happens if an Imaginary Friend tries to create an Imaginary Friend? Bloo has been shown to be at least as creative as Mac. I mean, how he turned the story about "Mac, I broke your Nintendo DS" into this awesome Her Codename Was Mary SueFan Fiction was just.... Awesome!

I could accept something like "an imaginary friends imagination is actually that of their creator"

Has any kid ever tried to "correct" an Imaginary Friend, by imagining them different from before? What would happen if they did? I mean, think about it. Mac could de-jerkizise Bloo, Madam Foster could make Mr Harriman at least a little bit less stiff, heck, Wilt could even regain his lost arm!

Think about this carefully, with an eye towards Fridge Horror. "Quit being such a dick, Bloo, or I'll make you be nice."

Well given the most likely reason (IMO) Bloo is a jerk (Kid blames his imaginary friend for problems he causes) I would guess that would be hard for Bloo, a major point of his existence.

It would probably just make another Imaginary Friend who was identical except for the changed attribute, like when Goo was imagining all those different rehashes of Bloo.

My guess is that an Imaginary Friend's creator can change it as long as it is "his" Imaginary Friend. It's similar to growing or evolving. The moment a child breaks the bond with the Imaginary Friend, he can't change it anymore.

If a kid tried to that, he would just make an alternate version of the friend. Goo did that in her debut episode, creating a series of Bloo clones, each one a different person.

Didn't Frankie ever have any imaginary friends herself?

It's possible that growing up in an environment where there were already so many imaginary friends meant that creating one of her own was unnecessary.

Presumably by the time you get old enough to have them your mind can't focus enough to create a living being. At least it seems that imaginary friends are mostly made by children.

Teens can make imaginary friends. Teens can have sexual fantasies. Ergo, teens can make sexual imaginary friends.

They probably could, but their parents would kill them.

Conjecture to the point of Wild Mass Guessing, but this troper has always wondered exactly how Fosters financially supports itself, being a huge establishment that provides room and board to hundreds of imaginary friends. Public donations are mentioned, but it is also possible that the home adopts the sexual fantasies so that they can earn money for the house, if you know what I mean.

Lies, those horrible monsters in the house didn't come from nowhere. They came from Japan. Imaginary friends shouldn't need tentacles.

There was a comic story where a boy was forced by his parents to give up his imaginary friend, a brainless double of Frankie. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what he was using her for.

Care to provide a link to said story? Just curious.

Actually, it was a comic. It appeared in one of the Cartoon Network comics. And judging by how the imaginary Frankie acted, I can assume the boy who made her was mainly someone to do his chores and play with him.

One, it's already been pointed out that it was from a comic. And two, both the boy's and his parents' reactions seem to suggest that he created Imaginary Frankie because he wanted a girlfriend. After all, his parents think he's "too young" for this particular Imaginary Friend, and they look as if they're disgusted by the whole situation.

With all the times Mac ends up in jail with the rest of the gang at the end of a few episodes (Cheese-A-Go-Go for example), you'd think his mother, overworked or not, would've been notified?

Who do you think bails him out?

Madame Foster?

Frankie?

One of these two is more likely; keep in mind Mac's mom is unaware of Foster's existence(or at least the fact that he goes there every day). If she went to bail him out and saw all the other imaginary friends, the jig would be up.

In the episode where the cast is going to Europe and Madam Foster stole Mac's airplane tickets, why didn't Coco just pop out an egg with more tickets in them? She did it maybe three times before in the same episode!

With the answer below me, it was probably just luck that she did it three times, considering plane tickets are worth a pretty penny. Most of the time, whatever Coco lays, it's usually trinkets that have little to no real value just like an egg capsule machine or an Easter egg, as the imaginary friend is designed to do.

Coco doesn't take requests. The contents of her eggs are as random as she is.

She laid the contents of a dinner table, (canned)food and all, in the camping episode after Bloo ate everyone's food. Hard to believe that was random.

Plus if you do that sort of thing too often, the airlines and the police would probably frown on it.

In the episode where Mr Herriman tries to overcome his carrot addiction, Bloo uses a wrecking ball to destroy a good chunk of the house so he can refuse to eat dinner that night (the meal in question was simply called "it," and Bloo found it disgusting). However, he actually helped Herriman, who says to Bloo that he "is eternally in his debt" as a result. So why didn't Bloo just ask to be excused from dinner? (apologies if that came out too wordy)

Bloo misses the point pretty often, so he didn't think of that possibility.

Can it be possible to create an imaginary friend that's completely indestructible. What stops any enfant terrible from creating an atomic bomb imaginary friend or a plague imaginary friend. What happens then?

Let us not forget World, from Destination Imagination. Who, at least in his own toy-box world, essentially wielded god-like powers. The only way to stop him is to lock him in a box and never, EVER go in there.

Can a person create an imaginary friend capable of reproducing?

Yes, the flea friends that lived on Eduardo

In the show, people can create food imaginary friends. If this is true, then any starving person would instantly be able to feed himself by imagining that he had food.

Noted in "Dinner Is Swerved"; a Chicken Leg friend notes he was imagined by a kid at a diet camp.

Well, if you're starving, then it'd be hard to focus enough to create food.

Not to mention that since imaginary friends (regardless of their forms) are living beings. Think about that. You're eating a living, breathing being!

I always figured that an imaginary friend was sort of "part of" their creator, so to speak. So eating one would be more like the friend becoming one with their creator again, albeit in a messed up, almost cannibalistic way. And the way I just described it, it probably would do nothing to satisfy the stomach if it goes back to your mind.

In the episode where Terrence creates Red, just moments before that event, he says that it's hungry and creates a slice of pizza (accidentally) who btw says that it would love him and stuff like that, just before he ate him

In one episode, Goo managed to imagine two imaginary friends who looked like Mac and Bloo, but could speak Spanish (and the fake Mac had a long tongue). Would those imaginary friends be able to have the memories of the originals?

No, they weren't the same people, just lookalikes. One would assume they'd have their own personalities and memories. Much like the many Bloos Mac's schoolmates created.

Wouldn't the constant imagining of friends overpopulate the Earth? Goo managed to overwhelm the entire mansion in only a few days with her over-imagination.

Maybe they've got a "Soylent Green is people" thing going on.

Well not every child is creative enough to create one of their own or perhaps just think it's less work to adopt.

I imagine it's like children: not everyone has kids, or some may choose to adopt for personal or charitable reasons (why create a new being when there are many out their looking for a home?)

Can the people create imaginary friends who are non-sentient. So far we have had sentient fleas, doors, horses, puppies, and even mops and buckets.

Well, only one of the puppies was demonstrated as being able to talk. The rest were just pets, although with extraordinary abilities. Seriously, who imagines a dog with laser vision?

There were the Scribbles, which were basically floating black line scribbles imagined by infants. Before Blue released them, the Scribbles were locked behind a door by Herriman because they were considered useless, annoying, and bothersome, something he would never do to any sentient imaginary friend.

In the pilot, Wilt distinguishes "ones with horns and wings" from "ones with horns and wings that talk", plus the Xtremosaur didn't appear to be sentient.

Was anybody else bugged by Mac's reaction at the end of "The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator Of Everything's Awesome Ceremony Of Fun"? I mean Bloo was clearly extremely ill, had absolutely no idea what was going on, and was hallucinating pretty severely. It seems unfair of Mac to get so angry at somebody for wrecking a party when they're in that state and have no idea they've done any of it. I mean Mac's supposed to be the nice one.

I like to think Mac was less angry about ruining the party and more angry about Bloo running around when he should have been resting, Besides, it's probably not the first time Bloo did something like. Sick or no sick a person's patience only goes so far.

OK, I loved this show when it was on (anyone feel free to send me some DVDs for my birthday), but a couple of things about the premise have always bugged me...

One...so, any kid who dreams up an imaginary friend, it becomes real. But eventually, they outgrow them and they live at Foster's until someone adopts them. So, why would a kid ever need to adopt an existing imaginary friend when they could just imagine one that is more personally and specifically suited to their personality? Are some kids simply unable to imagine? Since the whole premise is parallel to human adoption, does that mean those kids who are unable to imagine their own friend are somehow deficient — the equivalence of impotent/infertile in humans? Or do parents just encourage their kids to adopt an imaginary friend out of some sort of moral/ethical motivation?

Easy: Some kids just aren't creative. Its easier for them to adopt a friend than try to create one when they don't have strong enough imaginations to make an imaginary friend.

Two...do imaginary friends age, and can they die? My gut impression is "no" to both questions. Sure, Mr Herrimann is portrayed as an elderly rabbit, but Madame Foster may well have imagined him as older to begin with. If they never age or die, essentially when a kid creates one, he/she is creating an immortal being, who will be forced to go through endless cycles of abandonment and adoption. And if they are immortal, the planet would quickly be overrun with billions of them, not just those few dozen we see at Foster's.

I thought that if the creator of the imaginary friend dies, the friend dies with them. The imaginary friend is just another facet of their personality...I think....

The way I see it, Mac may have imaged Bloo to be somewhat of a jerk because deep down, he, like many people, wishes he could act that way. Why do you think characters like Greg House from House, Sue Sylvester from Glee, and Bender from Futurama are so popular? Because even nice people like Mac wish they could behave however they want.

I've always thought that the friend was an opposing personality of the child. Look at Mac and Bloo's contrasting personalities and Herriman and Madame Foster too. Or that kid whose imaginary kid kept destroying stuff and getting him in trouble, two opposing personalities.

Or maybe the part of the personality that the imaginary friend represents is actually taken out of the kid to create it (hence the opposing personality thing), and Mac was a Jerkass before he gave that part of his personality to Bloo.

If this is true, maybe some imaginary friends are created to get rid of parts of a kid's personality that they don't like. Mac could have created Bloo to become less of a jerk, Madame Foster could have created Mr Herriman to get rid of her own inability to enjoy life, Wilt could have been created by someone who wanted to be less of a doormat, Coco could have been created by a weird kid who wanted to fit in more, etc.

about this...if that's true, say an imaginary friend gets adopted by a compatible, loving kid. A couple of weeks later, his original creator dies in an auto wreck. So, the imaginary friend "dies" (ceases to exist), too. That would suck big-time for the kid who adopted him!

Well, in one episode, a new imaginary friend states that his creator went 'up there' and points up. Of course, he meant that he went to Canada, but Herriman naturally thought he meant he died. Since he offered condolences instead of wondering why he still exists, I say it is safe to assume they do NOT disappear when their creator dies.

I think the friend is whatever the kid needs it to be. Eduardo's creator was little girl frightened of bullies, so she dreamed up a frightening creature tp protect her. Wilt's creator was a lonely boy with no one to teach him how to play basketball, which he desperately wanted to get good at, so he creates Wilt, a kind, brotherly figure who loves basketball. Both these friends also possess character flaws: Edwardo is just as scared as his child, and it ends up teaching her to be brave through defending him (notice that he's brave when his buddies are in danger); Wilt is insecure, hence running away after losing a big game and constantly apologising. With this in mind, look at Mac's situation: absent father, overworked mother and a 13-year-od brother who has no one to teach him right from wrong. Now look at Bloo's character design and personality: he's shaped like a security blanket and behaves like a rambunctious, if selfish, child who thinks it's all about him. Mac essentially created a friend who forces him to take responsibility for his actions and be empathetic, to play with him when the house is empty and to vent his frustration at being ignored by his parents and left to the mercy of his brother. Also, note that in early episodes Mac did not stand up to Terrance's bullying unless Bloo said something first. Mac is such a sweet child that he's nervous to tell his brother to knock it off, so he created a friend to do it for him. Bloo's personality is specifically suited to being Mac's protector, playmate and de facto moral compass, which may be why he gets less sympathetic as the series goes on — without bullies to defend Mac from, he's been removed from the environment he was designed for and thus behaves in unsympathetic ways.

The whole point of the series is that Imaginary friends can exist. Why then, couldn't the characters just imagine convenient friends to solve any problem they're dealing with?

It's obvious that some kids have thought of that, which is we have salon friends, imaginary mops and buckets, a walking television, an imaginary camcorder...

How did Madame Foster manage to steal the tickets from Mac?When she hugs him, there is absolute silence (I turned my volume up to check).

She wouldn't be a very good pickpocket if everyone heard you stealing things, now would you?

So, anybody can create an imaginary friend. What happens if a kid gets really into H.P. Lovecraft and creates Cthulhu? Wouldn't that be bad?

Presumably a child would not be able to fully perceive Cthulhu to imagine him, and create thusly a less powerful imaginary doppelganger.

Plus that's where the giant monster friends come from.

Or else some kid who's really into South Park just creates Mint Berry Crunch. Problem solved.

How come Bloo is so mean to Mac all the time? Aren't they friends? And what did Mac do? He's so sweet.

Character Derailment could be the main culprit. Regardless, this troper often views Bloo as the opposite of Mac in many ways. Mac is (usually) a level-headed kind kid, while Bloo is more of a careless trickster most of the time. Just my thoughts.

Bloo was most likely brought into existence by Mac blaming him for any trouble Mac caused. As a result, Bloo is kind of a jerk.

Speaking of jerk - and I'm surprised no one ever though about asking this question - does anybody know how Mac's brother became such a jerk in the first place? I mean Mac is a nice, intelligent kid while Terrence is a rude, obnoxious, not-too-bright Jerkass despite the fact that they're brothers. Did something happen when Terrence was a child that caused him to turn into the jerkass he is on the show? And since we're discussing Terrence, where the hell is Mac and Terrence's father?

Terrence's behaviour could possibly involve younger sibling jealousy. His mother probably doted on him until Mac came along and started getting more of their mother's affection. As for the boys' father, since we never see or hear the boys talking about their father, a possible answer could be their parents are divorced, and their father could also potentially be the source of Terrence's rude behavior. Mac takes after their mother more.

Often when parents are suddenly absent, the oldest sibling becomes a surrogate parent until the real parent returns/a new guardian is installed, but that would require the child seeing an example of good parenting. Since their father could have disappeared when Terrence was as young as five, and it's possible their mother has always been the breadwinner, he may not know how to be nurturing. It's also possible that their father went away recently, and Terrence could be having anger issues that he's taking out on his brother to avoid feeling powerless/is blaming Mac for some reason. This could also be why their mother is reluctant to punish him for his behaviour — she thinks it's a phase he needs to work through and is just too overworked to actually sit down and talk with Terrence. I mean, the boy is only 13.

I remember reading on The Other Wiki about another season, or at least a movie. Was that just a rumor, since the series ended?

If there are Imaginary Friends, are there any Boogeymen? You know, Monsters in the Closet/under the bed/etc? It seems that if a kid is so imaginative to create a friend, shouldn't they be just as imaginative to create something in the dark of the night?

Might explain some of the Xtremesaurs.

Possible a child has to imagine then will a creature to manifest, which would minimize the existence of scary monster. The Xtremosaurs are probably the creation of older siblings that wanted to scare their kids.

Was the finale advertised? I never saw an ad for it, and I watch Cartoon Network all the time. I saw an ad for the 'Imagination special, but that's it.

The finale was advertised as part of a last five episodes marathon of Foster's.

Could people like George Lucas, J.K. Rowling, or Alan Moore accidentally create Imaginary Friends from their creations? I mean, they are very creative...ish. Meaning, there might be a Darth Vader or Voldemort walking around killing people.

They probably created them when they made stories or at least created "actor" who played such a character. So in this world, there are probably no guys in rubber suits and makeup or CGI characters.

In this world, Jar-Jar is actually a Shakespearean-trained actor with a British accent and a degree from Harvard and has a Playboy bunny girlfriend.

Actually it's been said that when people reach adulthood the ability to create friends just sort of switches off.

No. Creating imaginary friends is a voluntary process.

But we have seen imaginary friend versions of Prince Charming and Santa, so a kid imagining Darth Vader isn't out of the question.

In "Seize the Day," Mac makes a compass from a magnet and a needle to figure out which way was north. It was stated that is was around 5 or 6 in the afternoon, so why couldn't he have just checked where the sun was? If he's smart and resourceful enough to jury-rig a compass, I'd figure that he knows that the sun sets in the west.

Unless it's an equinox or you're on the equator, the sun doesn't rise and set dead-center east and west; it's always a bit north or south as well. He needed something more precise if they were going to find the treasure in time.

In the episode "Duchess of Wails", Duchess gets adopted, but the family happens to live next door to Mac. Mac's mother grows tired of Duchess's obnoxiousness and declares they'll move if it doesn't stop. Terrence lies to Mac and tells him his mother already decided they're moving to Singapore, Malaysia and Mac believes him. Mac knows Terrence is nothing but a bully, so why does he automatically believe him rather than go to his mother for confirmation?

Have you ever had an older sibling? Even if you know they're the type to mess with you, you can still get scared by some of the things they say. Mac may be smart, but he's still a kid.

So in the first episode, "House of Bloos", Duchess is showing her papers to a family looking to adopt, referring to herself as a "pedigree" imaginary friend. What exactly does that entail for the world of imaginary friends? Does it mean she was created by someone of high standing, like with a lot of money, power, or creativity? Or did she just make that up to look better?

Duchess probably just has proof she was created by a child from a well to do family, with a long heritage. If a friend is created by a Rockefeller for example, they'd probably brag about it.

Why hasn't anyone tried to imagine God yet? What about Satan? Or Jesus? Or maybe even a freaking Eldritch Abomination??? One episode had it where there was more than one imaginary Santa Claus, so it would make sense there would also be a bunch of Jesuses around since Christmas is around the day of his birth. In addition, would these imaginary friends have what comes with the package (omniscience, omnipotence, world destroying powers, etc)?

Because a) the censors wouldn't have allowed a direct appearance of God or Jesus in a kid's show, and b), the kids who want there to be one probably believe they already exists.

Can only humans conjure up imaginary beings? What if there was a planet with sentient alien creatures who could also conjure up their own imaginary friends. What would theirs' look like?

Are there any sense of Cloning Blues among imaginary friends who happen to be one of the many kinds conjured up from one concept, idea, or character? Bloo didn't seem to mind the fact that his appearance at Mac's school caused the students to create 100s of different versions of him, many of the same personality characteristics. Of course, this is Blue were talking about, him thinking too deeply about his existence would go completely against his character. But what of the other imaginary friends who did have existential feelings for themselves? There is also the issue of copyright infringement because Disney would have a field day suing the pants of anyone who makes unauthorised imaginary friends of their mascot.

I think that would basically be the equivalent of making fanfics. Normally companies don't really care if you make fanfics about there work as long as you don't make money off them. I'm assuming the same goes with Imaginary Friends.

Fridge Horror here but what sort of imaginary friends would a child psychopath/sociopath be able to conjure up?

This was discussed on the show, in the pilot. They're called "Xtremosauruses", and Foster's has a containment facility for them.

How come Mac never decided to leave Bloo at one point. I mean he became a bigger jerk each season!

Have you met Mac? He's, like, the nicest kid you could ever meet. He would never even think about leaving Bloo.

That may also be the reason Bloo is never kicked out of the house. The staff care about Mac and don't want to punish him by kicking out Bloo.

He created Bloo to be like that, so he probably feels it is his responsibility to deal with the problem he created.

He needs Bloo. That's why Bloo was created and why he comes to visit him. Maybe he will get fed up one day, but for now, Bloo is basically a security blanket. Besides, people care about and for unpleasant people regularly, and by creating Bloo, he made a bond with him, probably similar to a bond between parent and child.

Just because it ended well doesn't make the action itself any less shady. The point stands that Bloo is willing to use underhanded methods to get what he wants.

If the contents of Coco's eggs are "as random as she is" (See the question about plane tickets above), then how did she consciously choose to create trading cards?

Because the contents being 'random' is not always the case, necessarily - she is not always random. Remember the Pilot episode; she gave Bloo a picture of Mac - likely a conscious decision given the way she is looking at him when he looks up. It was also stated that she 'does not take requests' and that is pretty much the only limit on the contents of her eggs. She has been known to lay certain items on purpose other times as well. So they're not random, they're whatever she wants them to be.

So when she refused to lay a can opener in the "Camp Keep a Good Mac Down", after having laid all the canned food and knowing everyone was hungry, she was just being a prick?

It was requested.

Since Goofball is an imaginary friend all along, why did he hide his trunk the first time Frankie tried to prove he's just human? Also, he looked like he had a pointy of sorts nose when wearing the clown one.

He could be embarrassed of the trunk.

In the episode Go Goo Go, Frankie and Herriman jump to the conclusion that Goo is Mac's girlfriend because they saw her holding his hand. Mac is eight years old, and while Goo may be older, she's beneath teen age. How on Earth could they, especially Mr Herriman being as proper as he is, think an eight-year-old has a girlfriend?

In Frankie My Dear, Mac's love for Frankie was taken to climatic proportions.

Why does everyone, including Mr Herriman and Madame Foster, bend over backwards to accommodate Duchess? No one else in the house gets that kind of treatment, and if they tried to get it, Herriman would chew them out for it.

Because no one else in the house is anywhere near as demanding as Duchess is.

Plus, the episode where Duchess is given away to a family that cannot possibly accommodate her, she screamed and cried all day and night long, and it was so loud that the Foster Home could still hear it. Odds are, they only do it to shut Duchess up.

How come the last Bloo clone Mac eliminates is even at the house? Wasn't the point of sending all the Bloo clones to the house because the kids who made them thought they weren't enough like the original? Sure he's nicer than the real Bloo but the kids who made up the clones didn't know about Bloo's nasty personality so I would think at least that particular Bloo clone would have been close enough to keep.

At least one of the kids mentioned that his parents wouldn't let him keep the Bloo clone.

Imaginary Friends are (almost always) sapient creatures with wants, needs, ideas and feelings. How is it acceptable for any person, regardless of their intentions, to sell off/give away sapient creatures to other people, especially without consent of the sapient creature? (Bloo, in the pilot, would have been given to a Rich Brat simply because she wanted him, regardless of his complaints or the complaints of others.) That's a form of slavery. And I don't care that "That's what they want to do and they (generally) like it that way" or "That's what they like", that's still Slavery.

To be honest, the answer literally is "that's what they are made for". Imaginary friends exist as sort of best friends for kids who want one (probably due to loneliness or whatever). I do believe they've addressed What Measure Is a Non-Human? a few times. But if you want something else, try MST 3 K Manta.

There's one scene in the trading card episode that really bugs me; specifically, the part where Bloo tries to trade a card of himself to Wilt. When Wilt tells him that a Bloo card isn't worth much, Bloo signs the card and offers it to him, only to be told that it's worth even less now. So Bloo...rips the card in half and offers one of the halves to Wilt, saying, in a hopeful tone of voice, "Now we trade?" Okay, I can understand where Bloo was coming from in thinking that signing the card would make it more valuable, but ripping the card in half? What exactly was he trying to do there?

Nothing in particular. He was just acting without thinking, as usual.

Going back up to the thing about Mac ending up in jail several times, Mac has gone on several multiple-day excursions with the friends like "Good Wilt Hunting" and "Destination: Imagination". How does he keep his secret when he's been known to not be home for days on end?

The whole zombie episode bothered me near the end. The prank they pulled on Bloo was fine, actually pretty funny, what bothered me was when they yelled at Bloo for feeding Mac sugar. The whole reason he did that was that he was genuinely certain that Mac was going to DIE otherwise since he was tied up and the house was filling up with flesh chewing zombies. It's worth noting too that we actually saw some positive aspects of Bloo here in regards to Mac, he could have tried to escape a few times but said flatly that he wasn't going to abandon his best friend. Frankie and the others condemning Bloo for giving Mac sugar was pretty stupid on their part since they had done a very good job of convincing him and apparently others in the house that there was a genuine zombie attack going on and that Mac was in mortal peril. If anything they were more to blame than Bloo was since they also knew Mac was there and either could have moved him or let him know what was going on or let him get involved in the fun.

If Terrance is still a jerk to Mac, even after leaving Bloo at Foster's, what was the point of Mac's mother making him get rid of Bloo at all (unless she was the one who was wrong)?

This could've made a good finale movie: Mac's mother discovers that Mac still befriends Bloo at Foster's. She forbids Mac to go back there. But she learns that Terrance is a rotten s-o-d in general. After realizing and admitting that she was wrong (and being reacquainted with her own imaginary friend, she allows Mac and Bloo to remain friends.

Her reasoning wasn't just about Terrance, it was also that she thought Mac was too old for Bloo.

I don't understand "Mac Daddy". So, at the beginning, Mac seems to be completely convinced that he created Cheese by accident. He acts like he did all the way up until the end of the episode. Then Louise appears at the end, reunites with Cheese, and Mac tells Bloo who Louise is and that Cheese sometimes gets out, acting like he's known both Louise and Cheese for a long time. What the hell? Was Mac pretending that he created Cheese to teach Bloo a lesson (that the latter instantly retracted)?

He may have known Louise but only found out that she created Cheese later, and learned about him getting out.

Can multiple kids work together to create one imaginary friend with their combined imaginations? Or can each friend be created by only one kid?

When they first met, Coco said "Coco?" to Mac and Bloo, which they misunderstood as her offering them hot chocolate. Mac declines, but Bloo says yes. Coco then proceeds to say the same thing several times. Wilt explains that all she says is "coco" and that she was really just offering them juice. So if Bloo said yes and she was offering juice...why didn't she go get him some juice?

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